The FHSAA will be airing several state events live this year, starting with swimming today. Here’s a press release from the organization:

Gainesville, FL (November 9, 2011) – The FHSAA Network goes live today and will kick-off with a live broadcast of the 2011 swimming championships from the Central Florida YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando on Thursday, November 10. The championship meets will be streamed LIVE at www.FHSAAsports.com throughout the weekend as well as archived for on demand viewing.

The FHSAA Network is a partnership between the FHSAA and PlayOn! Sports that features live streaming and on-demand coverage of high school sports in Florida online. The FHSAAsports.com video portal provides fans access, at no charge, to a wide variety of events, all of which will be archived and available for on demand viewing.

All final swim meets will stream LIVE on the newly launched FHSAAsports.com site.

The FHSAA Network is a partnership between PlayOn! Sports and the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) featuring rights and brand management, video production of state championship events, multi-platform distribution, and coordinated sponsorship sales of high school sports in Florida.

PlayOn! Sports is the largest rights holder, producer, and aggregator of high school sports events distributed across television, the Internet, and IP-video enabled mobile devices. By combining State Athletic Associations’ postseason content with the regular season events of member schools, PlayOn provides marketers with a unique multi-media platform solution to reach teens, young adults and families. PlayOn is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., with offices in the Southeast and Midwest. For more information, contact PlayOn! Sports at info@playonsports.com, or visit www.playonsports.com.

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Roy is a native of Boston, the best sports city in the nation, and is a graduate of the University of Central Florida. He has covered Polk County high school sports since 1992, chronicling the achievements of 29 teams that won state titles, including three teams that finished No. 1 in national rankings. He also has covered the Cleveland Indians in spring training for six years, the 2004 Stanley Cup finals, 2009 Super Bowl, UCF college football games, numerous sporting events involving the Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay Buccaneers and numerous college football bowl games.

Bill was raised in the sports-crazed Motor City metropolitian area and is a graduate of the University of South Florida in Tampa. He has covered more than 3,000 sporting events including: the Jacksonville Jaguars, Super Bowl XXXVI and the NFL playoffs, SEC football and major college bowl games involving Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Michigan and Penn State, NASCAR racing at the Daytona 500 and Talladega Superspeedway plus 14 years of preps.